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trans·plan·ta·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. transplant, transplantation, organ transplantnoun

    an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

    "he had a kidney transplant"; "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago"

  2. transplant, transplantation, transplantingnoun

    the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location

    "the transplant did not flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation"

Wiktionary

  1. transplantationnoun

    The resettlement of a group of people

  2. transplantationnoun

    A surgical operation in which an organ is moved from a donor to a recipient; an organ transplant

  3. transplantationnoun

    The uprooting of a tree and planting it in a new location

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Transplantationnoun

    Etymology: transplantation, Fr.

    It is confessed, that love changed often doth nothing; nay, it is nothing; for love where it is kept fixed to its first object, though it burn not, yet it warms and cherishes, so as it needs no transplantation, or change of soil, to make it fruitful. John Suckling.

    What noise have we had for some years about transplantation of diseases, and transfusion of blood. Thomas Baker.

    Most of kingdoms have throughly felt the calamities of forcible transplantations, being either overwhelmed by new colonies that fell upon them, or driven, as one wave is driven by another to seek new seats, having lost their own. Walter Raleigh.

    This appears a replication to what Menelaus had offered concerning the transplantation of Ulysses to Sparta. William Broome.

ChatGPT

  1. transplantation

    Transplantation is a medical procedure where an organ, tissue, or cells are removed from one body (the donor) and placed into the body of another person (the recipient) to replace a damaged or missing organ, tissue, or cells. The procedure is often done to treat various diseases, conditions or injuries. It could also refer to the process of moving or transferring something to a new place or situation, such as in the context of plants.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Transplantationnoun

    the act of transplanting, or the state of being transplanted; also, removal

  2. Transplantationnoun

    the removal of tissues from a healthy part, and the insertion of them in another place where there is a lesion; as, the transplantation of tissues in autoplasty

  3. Transplantationnoun

    the removal of a bodily organ or of tissues from one person, and the insertion of them into another person to replace a damaged organ or tissue; as, the transplantation of a heart, kidney, or liver

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Transplantation

    Transference of a tissue or organ, alive or dead, within an individual, between individuals of the same species, or between individuals of different species.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of transplantation in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of transplantation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of transplantation in a Sentence

  1. Jesse Schold:

    Although numerous organs are not accepted for transplantation for valid reasons, it is also true that many centers are unwilling to take risks on donor hearts, especially in the current climate where institutional outcomes are publicly available. unfortunately, the candidate population has continued to increase over time.

  2. Frederike Bemelman:

    The advantages of organ transplantation far outweigh these small risks, people should not be worried.

  3. Alexander Millman:

    Hepatitis C infection can last a lifetime and lead to serious liver problems, including cirrhosis, which is scarring of the liver, liver cancer, or death, hepatitis C is the leading cause of liver cancer and the most common reason for liver transplantation in the United States.

  4. Ravindra Gupta:

    Our findings show that the success of stem cell transplantation as a cure for HIV, first reported nine years ago in the Berlin patient, can be replicated.

  5. Sharon Lewin:

    Coming 10 years after the successful report of the Berlin Patient, this new case confirms that bone marrow transplantation from a CCR5-negative donor can eliminate residual virus and stop any traces of virus from rebounding, two factors are likely at play : The new bone marrow is resistant to HIV, and also, the new bone marrow is actively eliminating any HIV-infected cells.

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